THE STORY: When his lover, literary adversary and a sympathetic colleague gather at Dave Ardith's upstate retreat for a midsummer barbecue, the acclaimed author is forced to confront his demons - the novel he is loath to finish and the life he is loath to resume. Six years later, Dave's young protégé, Scott - present on that fateful night - returns to the house, soul-searching and plagued by a mysterious regret.
"Hope-inspiring
Still in his mid-20s, Mr. Shinn is a welcome paradox among up-and-coming American dramatists: creator of carefully constructed, dialogue-heavy works that nonetheless resonate with a sense of the unspoken
WHAT DIDN'T HAPPEN is about the distance between people, and the ways in which even friends, spouses and lovers are ultimately unknowable to one another
a playwright to cherish." - NY Times. "All [Shinn's] characters have surprising moments of humanity that break stereotypes. Shinn just cannot write a fake or untelling word
a delightful tale." - NY Post.
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Dramatists Play Service Inc. |
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